SO, HOW ARE THE FRONT DOOR PANELS COMING ALONG?
The
first upper panel is assembled and soldered.
It now needs lots of cleaning.
The Heisey Rose pattern is included as well as two beads. Both can be seen in the detail photos. There are also open spaces in the work to
allow for a certain amount of “air” movement within the panels. The second upper panel is well underway with
both the layout and the assembly progressing nicely. The lower panels, containing the dates and
dedication information, have much of the pieces organized and set aside. The basic layout is also drawn. These two panels will have the official data
sandblasted into cobalt blue (to match the upper panels’ cobalt blue) pieces of
non Heisey class.
The
main concept for these panels continues to be to include as much variety of
Heisey glass as possible, including the colors and etchings as well as
patterns. Most of the glass is coming
from broken and damaged pieces. However,
members have been very generous in also donating undamaged glass, which are
being used as whole pieces as much as possible.
All the scrap glass not useable in the panels will be returned to the
museum to be melted down for further use in museum projects. A full photographic and written record of
this project is also being created for possible use as a booklet/fund raiser
P. S. I still do not have any Dawn or Ivorina
Verde for the panels
